WO2015081983A1 - Mélangeur de sous-harmoniques et procédé associé pour convertir des signaux de radiofréquences en signaux de fréquence intermédiaire - Google Patents

Mélangeur de sous-harmoniques et procédé associé pour convertir des signaux de radiofréquences en signaux de fréquence intermédiaire Download PDF

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WO2015081983A1
WO2015081983A1 PCT/EP2013/075288 EP2013075288W WO2015081983A1 WO 2015081983 A1 WO2015081983 A1 WO 2015081983A1 EP 2013075288 W EP2013075288 W EP 2013075288W WO 2015081983 A1 WO2015081983 A1 WO 2015081983A1
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  • Embodiments herein relate to a sub-harmonic mixer and a method therein.
  • it relates to a sub-harmonic mixer for converting radio frequency signals to intermediate frequency signals in a wireless communication device.
  • Wireless communication devices usually comprise wireless receivers and transmitters.
  • a down-conversion mixer is an important building block in a wireless receiver, which converts a high Radio Frequency (RF) ⁇ RF signal to an Intermediate Frequency (IF) f IF signal by virtue of a Local Oscillator (LO) f
  • the output of the mixer is an IF signal, and its frequency is given by f
  • F
  • the IF signal is obtained by mixing the RF signal with the 1 st harmonic of the
  • LO signal such kind of mixer
  • a fundamental mixer if n ⁇ 1 , the IF signal is obtained by mixing the RF signal with the n-th order harmonic of the LO signal, such kind of mixer is called a xn sub-harmonic mixer.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer is driven by a low frequency LO signal.
  • an x2 sub-harmonic mixer requires an LO signal having a frequency of a half of that for a fundamental mixer. If a fundamental mixer is used for a receiver operating at a RF frequency above 140GHz, a signal source with a frequency around 140GHz is needed. Unfortunately, such a signal source is not commercially available.
  • One solution is using a frequency multiplier together with a low frequency signal source.
  • Another solution is using a sub-harmonic mixer.
  • n the number of the number n is, i.e. the n-th order harmonic of the LO signal, the lower the LO signal frequency is.
  • a low frequency signal source usually has a better phase noise performance than that of a high frequency one, because the quality factor Q of the resonator increases as the frequency decreases. Consequently, a high- order (n ⁇ 4) sub-harmonic mixer is desired, especially, in the case that the RF frequency is larger than 140GHz.
  • ELLIS Thomas J. et al., A Planar Circuit Design for High Order Sub-harmonic Mixers, Microwave Symposium Digest, IEEE MTT-S International, 1997
  • an x5 sub-harmonic mixer with a single diode is disclosed. This x5 sub-harmonic mixer has a conversion loss of 15dB with an LO signal power of 12dBm.
  • a sub-harmonic mixer with an anti-parallel diode pair is designed and characterized. It has a conversion loss of 9.2dB with an LO signal power of 5dBm, when operating with the 2nd order harmonic of the LO signal, and it has a conversion loss of 1 1 dB with an LO signal power of 10dBm, when operating with the 4th order harmonic of the LO signal.
  • US4320536 discloses a sub-harmonic pumped mixer circuit utilizes quarter wavelength transmission lines at an LO frequency to provide high RF to LO port isolation while allowing the RF and LO ports, as well as an IF port, to be connected directly to a semiconductor switch.
  • a transmission line suppressor network connected between the semiconductor switch and the RF port allows operation at any selected even LO harmonic by suppressing response to even harmonics of the LO frequency below the selected harmonic and includes transmission line suppressors which are each a quarter wavelength at the frequency to be suppressed.
  • sub-harmonic mixers are Gilbert type mixers, where emitter-coupled pairs driven by differential LO signals are either in parallel or stacked, to enhance the 2nd LO harmonic and suppress the 1 st harmonic.
  • Gilbert type mixers where emitter-coupled pairs driven by differential LO signals are either in parallel or stacked, to enhance the 2nd LO harmonic and suppress the 1 st harmonic.
  • TSAI J.-H. et al., 35-65 GHz CMOS Broadband Modulator and Demodulator with Sub- harmonic Pumping for MMW Wireless Gigabit Applications, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., Oct. 2007, vol. 55, no.10, pp.
  • an x2 sub-harmonic mixer (Gilbert type) is disclosed and has a conversion loss about 6dB with an LO signal power of 7dBm; in SHENG, L, et al., A Wide-bandwidth Si/SiGe HBT Direct Conversion Sub-harmonic mixer/ Downconverter, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Sep.
  • CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
  • FIG. 2 Another kind of sub-harmonic mixer is shown in Figure 2, where the LO signal is applied at the gate/base of the transistor and the RF signal is applied at either the drain or the base.
  • Such kind of mixer is called as "gate mixer”.
  • GUNNARSSON Sten E., Analysis and Design of a Novel 4 Subharmonically Pumped Resistive HEMT Mixer, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., April 2008, vol. 56, no. 4
  • an x4 sub-harmonic mixer is shown, which has a conversion loss of 15dB with an LO signal power of 8dBm.
  • MAO Yanfei, et al., 245-GHz LNA, Mixer, and Subharmonic Receiver in SiGe Technology, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 2012, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3823 - 3833, an x4 sub-harmonic mixer is described and it has a conversion loss of 5dB.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer utilizing diodes as described above has a conversion loss and needs an LO signal power larger than 5dBm. Even though a Gilbert type subharmonic mixer has potential to get a positive conversion gain, the Gilbert type sub- harmonic mixers, as well as most of the gate mixers need an LO power divider and phase shifter which is built by either transmission lines or lumped components such as resistors and capacitors.
  • the power divider/phase shifter has a certain frequency bandwidth, which limits the frequency bandwidth of the mixer, and furthermore, the losses of the power divider/phase shifter increases the LO power consumption. If a frequency multiplier is utilized in the sub-harmonic mixer, it will cause extra power consumption.
  • the object is achieved by a sub- harmonic mixer for converting an RF signal to an IF signal.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer comprises an LO input to receive an LO signal; an RF input to receive the RF signal and an IF output to output the IF signal.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer further comprises two or more cascaded stages, each stage having an input and an output.
  • the output of each stage is coupled to the input of a next stage by a capacitor.
  • Each stage comprises a common-emitter transistor having a base, a collector and an emitter.
  • each stage comprises a common-source transistor having a gate, a drain and a source. The input of each stage is at the base or gate of the transistor, the output of each stage is at the collector or drain of the transistor.
  • an Alternating Current Chock is coupled at the collector or drain of each transistor, the emitter or source of each transistor is coupled together to a ground.
  • the LO input is coupled to the input of a first stage of the two or more stages; the RF input is coupled to the output of the first stage of the two or more stages; and the IF output is coupled to the output of a last stage of the two or more stages.
  • the object is achieved by a method in a sub-harmonic mixer for converting an RF signal to an IF signal.
  • the sub- harmonic mixer comprises two or more cascaded stages each stage having an input and an output, the output of each stage is coupled to the input of a next stage by a capacitor.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer receives an LO signal at an input of a first stage of the two or more cascaded stages and receives the RF signal at an output of the first stage.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer then amplifies the LO signal and generates LO harmonic signals in the first stage.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer further generates a first IF signal by mixing the RF signal with one of generated LO harmonic signal in the first stage.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer then amplifies the generated first IF signal in stages of the two or more cascaded stages following the first stage.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer further generates a second IF signal by mixing the RF signal with one of the generated LO harmonic signal in the stages of the two or more cascaded stages following the first stage.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer then generates the IF signal by combining the amplified first IF signal and the generated second IF signal at an output of a last stage of the two or more cascaded stages.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer outputs the generated IF signal to an IF output.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer according to embodiments herein has several advantages: First, since the LO signal is amplified in the first stage, the conversion gain at the following stages is improved and the LO power consumption is reduced. This is because the conversion gain increases with the increasing LO signal power, as long as the LO signal power is below a certain value.
  • the IF signal is obtained with different mechanisms and combined at the last stage of the sub-harmonic mixer, the overall conversion gain is enhanced.
  • the sub- harmonic mixer according to embodiments herein has a broad bandwidth.
  • embodiments herein provide a sub-harmonic mixer with improved
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a sub-harmonic mixer based on emitter coupled pairs.
  • Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an x4 sub-harmonic mixer.
  • Figure 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a sub-harmonic mixer according to one
  • Figure 4 is a flowchart depicting a method in a sub-harmonic mixer according to one embodiment.
  • Figure 5 is a diagram illustrating a spectrum of an output signal at the output of a first stage of the sub-harmonic mixer shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 6 is a diagram showing conversion gain versus LO signal power for the sub- harmonic mixer shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 7 is a diagram showing conversion gain versus input RF signal power for the sub harmonic mixer shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 8 is a diagram showing conversion gain versus LO signal frequency for the sub- harmonic mixer shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 9 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a wireless communication device in which embodiments herein may be implemented in.
  • a sub-harmonic mixer comprising three cascaded stages is shown in Figure 3.
  • a sub-harmonic mixer comprising two cascaded stages or more than three cascaded stages is also possible.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 comprises an LO input 302 to receive an LO signal; an RF input 304 to receive the RF signal and an IF output 306 to output the IF signal.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 further comprises three cascaded stages 310, 312, 314, each stage having an input and an output, the output of each stage is coupled to the 15 input of a next stage by a capacitor.
  • the output of the stage 310 is coupled to the input of the stage 312 by a capacitor 320; the output of the stage 312 is coupled to the input of the stage 314 by a capacitor 322.
  • Each stage 310, 312, 314 comprises a common-emitter transistor Q-
  • each stage 310, 312, 314 may comprise a common-source transistor having 20 a gate, a drain and a source.
  • the input of each stage is at the base or gate of the transistor, the output of each stage is at the collector or drain of the transistor.
  • each transistor is coupled to
  • Direct Current supplies V c , V c2 and V c3 through Alternating Current Chocks 330, 25 333, 334 respectively, the emitter or source of each transistor is connected to a ground.
  • the LO input 302 is coupled to the input of the first stage 310 through a capacitor 324; the RF input 304 is coupled to the output of the first stage 310 through a high-pass filter 340; and the IF output 306 is coupled to the output of the last stage 314 through a low-pass filter and matching network 342.
  • the base or gate of each transistor is coupled to DC supplies Vbi_, Vb2 and V 3, through resistors Rbb Rb2 and Rb3 respectively.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 comprises three cascaded stages, each stage has different functions and will be described as performing different actions.
  • the first stage 310 of the sub-harmonic mixer performs the following actions:
  • the first stage 310 of the sub-harmonic mixer receives a Local Oscillator, LO, signal at an input of the first stage 310.
  • the first stage 310 of the sub-harmonic mixer receives the RF signal at an output of the first stage 310.
  • the first stage 310 of the sub-harmonic mixer amplifies the LO signal and generates
  • the first stage 310 of the sub-harmonic mixer generates a first IF signal by mixing the RF signal with one of generated LO harmonic signal.
  • the first stage 310 works as a "gate/base mixer" and has multi-functions.
  • First it amplifies the LO signal and generates harmonic signals of the LO signal. This is illustrated in Figure 5 which shows a spectrum of an output signal at the output of the first stage 310.
  • _o 30GHz
  • it will generates a 5th order LO harmonic signal which is 150GHz.
  • the generated desired IF signal is f IF GHz
  • the sub-harmonic mixer herein is an x5 sub-harmonic mixer.
  • the RF signal is received at the output of the first stage 310, it prevents the RF signal from leaking to the LO input, therefore RF to LO input isolation is obtained.
  • the second stage 320 and the third or last stage 330 of the sub-harmonic mixer perform the following actions, referring again to Figure 4:
  • the second stage 320 and the third or last stage 330 generate a second IF signal by mixing the RF signal with one of the generated LO harmonic signal.
  • the third/last stage 330 of the sub-harmonic mixer further performs the following actions:
  • the third/last stage 330 generates the IF signal by combining the amplified first IF signal and the generated second IF signal at an output of the last stage 330.
  • the third/last stage 330 outputs the generated IF signal to an IF output.
  • the IF signal is obtained with different mechanisms.
  • the RF and one of the generated LO harmonic signal are mixed in the first stage 310 to generate a first IF signal.
  • the RF signal and generated LO harmonics are mixed in the stages following the first stage, such as in the second and the third stages of the sub-harmonic mixer according to embodiments herein, to generate a second IF signal.
  • the generated first IF signal is also amplified by the following stages.
  • the generated and amplified first IF signal is combined with the generated second IF signal. Combining or adding the IF signal generated from the different mechanisms, the conversion gain is enhanced.
  • the example sub- harmonic mixer herein has a positive conversion gain, even when it operates at high-order LO harmonics, and is driven by a low LO signal power.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer according to embodiments herein has a conversion gain of 6.2dB.
  • the IF signal generated by the first stage 310 is taken away deliberately, by using a shunted LC series resonator resonating at IF frequency, such as 1 GHz.
  • a shunted LC series resonator resonating at IF frequency such as 1 GHz.
  • One terminal of the LC series resonator is connected with the collector/drain of the transistor Q1 , and the other terminal is grounded.
  • the IF signal is filtered out, because the resonator has a very low impedance at 1 GHz.
  • the x5 sub-harmonic mixer conversion gain with the resonator becomes 0.33dB which is about 6dB lower than that of without the resonator. This result confirms that the mixing component, i.e., the first IF signal, generated in the first stage 310 contributes to the overall conversion gain of the whole sub-harmonic mixer circuit.
  • the LO signal is applied at the input of the first stage 310, so the first stage 310 also amplifies the input LO signal, which improves the conversion gain because the conversion gain increases with the increasing LO signal power, as long as the LO signal power is below a certain value. In other words, the first stage 310 helps to reduce the LO power consumption.
  • _o 30GHz and
  • f RF 151 GHz.
  • the conversion gain has a maximum value of 6.8dB.
  • the RF signal is applied at the output of the first stage 310 through the high pass filter 340 which allows the high frequency RF signal to go through but prevents the leakage of the LO signal to the RF input.
  • the low-pass filter and matching network 342 is coupled between the IF output and the output of the third stage.
  • the low-pass filter and matching network 342 has a function of impedance matching and a function of suppressing undesired RF and LO signals and their harmonic signals, as well as other mixing components, except the desired IF signal component.
  • the conversion gain as a function of the input RF signal power is shown in Figure 7, where f
  • p 1 GHz, f
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 has a broad bandwidth for the LO and RF signals.
  • the conversion gain as a function of the LO signal frequency is shown in Figure 8, where the IF signal frequency is fixed at 1 GHz, the LO signal power is 1 .5dBm. It can be seen that, as the LO signal frequency is swept from 23GHz to 55GHz, the corresponding RF signal frequency is from 1 16GHz to 276GHz, the conversion gain of the sub-harmonic mixer 300 is larger than 0 dB, and the maximum conversion gain is 7.3 dB at the LO signal frequency of 51 .1 GHz and the RF signal frequency of 256.5GHz. This result shows that the sub-harmonic mixer herein has a broad bandwidth.
  • _o . where n 4,5,6,7,8, which represents the different order of the LO harmonics.
  • the conversion gain versus RF signal frequency is simulated and the results are listed in Table 1 for different LO harmonics, where the LO signal frequency is fixed at 30GHz with a power of 1 .5dBm, the RF signal has a power of - 20dBm and the desired IF signal frequency is 1 GHz. It can be seen that the sub-harmonic mixer 300 herein has a decent conversion gain when operating with the LO harmonics from the 4th to the 7th order. However, as the sub-harmonic mixer operates with the 8th order LO harmonic, the conversion gain drops to -2.5dB.
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 also has a low DC power consumption. For example, it operates at a collector supply voltage of 1 .8V with a DC current of 30mA. The total DC power consumption is 54mW.
  • sub-harmonic mixer 300 has following advantages:
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 is suitable for millimeter/macro wave receivers for receiving, for example, E-band and 145GHz RF signals in a wireless communication device 900 as shown in Figure 9.
  • the wireless communication device 900 comprises a Receiver 910, wherein the sub-harmonic mixer 300 may be implemented in.
  • the wireless communication device 900 further comprises a Transmitter 920, a Memory 930 and a Processing unit 940.
  • , Q2 and Q3 in the sub-harmonic mixer 300 as shown in Figure 3 are Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)
  • the sub-harmonic mixer 300 may comprise any other types of transistors, such as Field- Effect Transistor (FET), Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor FET (MOSFET), Junction FET (JFET), Metal-semiconductor FETs (MESFETs) etc.
  • FET Field- Effect Transistor
  • MOSFET Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor FET
  • JFET Junction FET
  • MESFETs Metal-semiconductor FETs

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Le mélangeur de sous-harmoniques (300) de l'invention comprend deux étages en cascade (310, 312, 314) ou davantage servant à convertir un signal de radiofréquence en un signal de fréquence intermédiaire. Chaque étage comprend un transistor à émetteur commun ou un transistor à source commune et chaque étage possède une entrée et une sortie, la sortie de chaque étage étant couplée à l'entrée d'un étage suivant par un condensateur (320, 322). Une bobine d'arrêt de courant alternatif (330, 332, 334) est couplée à un collecteur ou un drain de chaque transistor. Une entrée LO (302) est couplée à l'entrée d'un premier étage d'un ensemble de deux étages ou plus; une entrée RF (304) est couplée à la sortie du premier étage de l'ensemble de deux étages ou plus; et une sortie IF (306) est couplée à la sortie d'un dernier étage de l'ensemble de deux étages ou plus.
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